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eBay find of the week, numero novecentosei: Porsche 906 in Italy
We just came across a nice Porsche on eBay Italian. It's an old one, but we think it still looks pretty good. Okay, that has to be the understatement of the century. It's a 906 or Carrera 6, as it's also known. Altogether 65 of the 906 sports prototypes were built as customer race cars to compete against Ferrari's 206 SP Dinos. Of course, they often shared the track with not only those Ferraris but the larger P cars as well as 904 GTS racers and even the Ford GT40s. These mid-'60s endurance racers, along with their baby-brother 904s, bridged the gap between the old Speedsters and Spyders, and the all-conquering 917s and 956/962s in the Porsche legacy of racing dominance. A winner on the track and such a gorgeous car to boot. This particular one is a 1966 that has been offered at auction in Geneva in 1998 and Monte Carlo in '99, but failed to sell on either occasion. The current seller is in Italy and has put an asking price of EUR 550,000.00 on this classic. It's eBay item number 220117102491.
[Source: eBay]
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Bunkie 4:10PM (7/27/2007)
For those of us who were growing up in the 1960s, Cars such as the Carerra 6 epitomized road racing (an exotic foreign thing from a US perspective). Fellow slot-car racers of the time will especially recognize the Carerra 6 because we raced the Russkit 1/24 scale version at our local slot-car tracks.
It's wonderful to see such a nice example surviving.
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Ligor is an Idiot 1:04AM (7/28/2007)
Yes, a great car indeed.
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simianspeedster 2:56AM (7/28/2007)
While the 906 is great, the 904 is one of my two favorite auto designs of all time (tied for first with the Dino 246), and I was born in the 70s!
-SimianSpeedster
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Ted 5:58PM (7/30/2007)
Haveing had the privledge of driving examples of both the 904 and 906, I can say that they both are loud, HOT, thin skinned, difficult to see out of, horrendously expensive to maintain, skinny tube framed death traps that I'd be thrilled to drive again on a moments notice. In other words, they are just like most 60's era race cars. Despite the Factory's claims, these are not very suitable as street cars - no matter how much we wanted them to be.
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